In place of the alpha releases Ubuntu 13.04 would issue ï¿½monthly milestonesï¿½. These would essentially be daily builds with more attention given to them.

Milestones would still allow bugs and features to be ï¿½targetedï¿½ at specific points, but would give developers and project maintainers a greater flexibility and/or opportunity for landing their work in Raring.

Ubuntu 13.04 Beta would be the first, and possibly only, formal development release. Future LTS releases would retain the use of ï¿½pointï¿½ releases.